"phantom jam" meaning in English

See phantom jam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: phantom jams [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} phantom jam (plural phantom jams)
  1. (automotive) A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason. Categories (topical): Automotive
    Sense id: en-phantom_jam-en-noun-l5Cp-GcY Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
  2. (automotive) A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion. Categories (topical): Automotive Related terms: traffic jam
    Sense id: en-phantom_jam-en-noun-SpTefA~5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for phantom jam meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phantom jams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "phantom jam (plural phantom jams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Automotive",
          "orig": "en:Automotive",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason."
      ],
      "id": "en-phantom_jam-en-noun-l5Cp-GcY",
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "slowdown",
          "slowdown"
        ],
        [
          "traffic",
          "traffic"
        ],
        [
          "apparent",
          "apparent"
        ],
        [
          "reason",
          "reason"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive) A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Automotive",
          "orig": "en:Automotive",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion."
      ],
      "id": "en-phantom_jam-en-noun-SpTefA~5",
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "traffic jam",
          "traffic jam"
        ],
        [
          "highway",
          "highway"
        ],
        [
          "in reality",
          "in reality"
        ],
        [
          "optical illusion",
          "optical illusion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive) A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 95",
          "word": "traffic jam"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phantom jam"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "phantom jams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "phantom jam (plural phantom jams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "traffic jam"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Automotive"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "slowdown",
          "slowdown"
        ],
        [
          "traffic",
          "traffic"
        ],
        [
          "apparent",
          "apparent"
        ],
        [
          "reason",
          "reason"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive) A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Automotive"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "traffic jam",
          "traffic jam"
        ],
        [
          "highway",
          "highway"
        ],
        [
          "in reality",
          "in reality"
        ],
        [
          "optical illusion",
          "optical illusion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive) A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phantom jam"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.